During a press conference, after the inauguration of a new Airport in Dhi Qar province, the Iraqi transport minister made a very controversial statement. He said that the region hosted the first airport in the history of man-kind, constructed by the Sumerians, 5,000 years BC. Mr. Finjan continued saying: “When the Sumerians settled here, they knew well that the atmosphere was suitable for flying to outer-space. It was from here that the Sumerian spacecrafts took off towards other planets.”